French Corner: Blaise Pascal University and ESC Clermont-Ferrand

Welcome to the "French Corner", the Consulate’s monthly rendez-vous dedicated to the promotion of France’s culture and patrimony in video! This April, discover the University Blaise Pascal of Clermont-Ferrand and Group ESC Clermont-Ferrand.

University Blaise Pascal of Clermont-Ferrand

Blaise Pascal University has five Faculties; two Schools of Engineering; one University Institute of Technology and one Teacher Training Faculty. The quality of its teaching makes it a well-known university, attracting and welcoming more than 2,000 foreign students. It has indeed four Doctoral Schools and thirty-one laboratories and research teams, sixteen of which are associated with the C.N.R.S. (National Centre for Scientific Research) and two with the I.N.R.A. (National Institute for Research in Agronomy). Multidisciplinary courses and degrees in Arts, Languages and the Humanities, Exact and Natural Sciences and Technology, Sports Science and Engineering are offered to the University’s 16,000 students.

Have a look at a presentation by an American student at Blaise Pascal University:

Group ESC Clermont-Ferrand

The Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC) of Clermont is a graduate school of Management, member of the "Conférence des Grandes Ecoles" since 1985 that recognizes the quality of its Master’s degree. The university offers 30 certificates, specialized among others in finance, marketing or international affairs. Its Master in Management was ranked among the 80 bests in the world by the Financial Times in 2015.

Free Immigration Legal Consultation

Boston City Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement - MOIA offers immigration clinics at City Hall on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month.
The clinic runs from 12pm-2pm.
This clinic is open to anyone, regardless of status, who has any immigration questions. Clinic attendees can expect a 20 minute consultation with an Immigration attorney.

MOIA also organizes two other Citizenship efforts:

Citizenship Day which is held once a year;

and a New American Workforce program.

This year, Citizenship Day will be on September 23, 2017.
MOIA will partner with Project Citizenship to host a one-day workshop where people may come and fill out all their citizenship paperwork for free. MOIA hopes to serve 400 people on this day.